Five Nights at Freddy's 3 is an indie point-and-click survival horror video game, and the third installment of the series developed by . It is chronologically the final game of the series, and the sequel to Five Nights at Freddy's.
There are no doors or lights in the third game, and the player must rely on playing audio and sealing off to survive, as well as utilizing a to reboot any systems which happen to go offline.
Summary
Thirty years after closed its doors, the that took place there have become nothing more than a rumor and a childhood memory, but the owners of "" are determined to revive the legend and make the experience as authentic as possible for patrons, going to great lengths to find anything that might have survived decades of neglect and ruin.
At first there were only empty shells, a , a , and an old , but then a remarkable discovery was made...
The attraction now has .
Development
The game was first announced with a teaser that was posted on Scott's website on December 6, 2014. Several more teasers on his website followed, the next being an image of Springtrap with the words "I am still here" on the image along with a small 3 in the corner, this image being added on January 2, 2015. The last teaser image he revealed on his website was an image of a box full of parts from the toy animatronics, parts from some old animatronics, and some other objects, such as a paper plate man. Springtrap can be seen standing next to the box. The file's name was "whatcanweuse.jpg".
On January 26, 2015, Scott released the teaser trailer for Five Nights at Freddy's 3 on its , the page also containing various in-game screenshots.
The game was officially released on March 2, 2015 - first, as a demo given out to Let's Players on Twitch.tv and YouTube, then hours later as a full game available to the public on Steam. An Android version was released on March 7, 2015, followed by an iOS release on March 12, 2015.
Reception ReviewsAggregate scoresAggregatorScore(PC) 72.0%
(iOS) 80%(PC) 71/100
Five Nights at Freddy's 3 received mixed to positive reviews from professional critics, specifically garnering praise for its darker and grittier tone. At Metacritic, which assigns a rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Five Nights at Freddy's 3 has received an average score of 71 out of 100, whereas GameRankings gave the game's PC version a 72.00% based on 4 reviews, and the iOS version an 80%.
Omri Petitte from PC Gamer gave Five Nights at Freddy's 3 a score of 77 out of 100, praising the reworked camera system, but commented on how the jumpscares from the other animatronics "felt a little stale by the third night." In a more critical review, Nic Rowen from Destructoid gave the game a 6.5 out of 10, saying that, even though the game is "by far the most technically proficient and mechanically satisfying installment yet," he criticized Springtrap and Fazbear's Fright for lacking the "charm of the original cast and locations."
